Sport, Events and Tourism
FA Cup Final 2004 

Outputs

Academic Papers

  • Collins A and Flynn A (2008) Measuring the Environmental Sustainability of a major Sporting Event: A case study of the FA Cup Final, Tourism Economics, 14 (4), pp751-768.
  • Collins A, Flynn A, Munday M and Roberts A (2007) Assessing the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003/04 FA Cup Final, Urban Studies, 44 (3), pp1-20.

Conference Papers

  • Collins A and Roberts A ‘Assessing the Environmental Impact of Major Sporting Events: The ecological footprint of the Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. Welsh Economy Research Unit Conference ‘Sport, Society and Environment: Tracing the Links’, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff (24 May, 2007).
    Collins A, Roberts A and Munday M, ‘Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of major sporting events: the RBS Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. International Ecological Footprint Conference ‘Stepping Up the Pace: New Developments in Ecological Footprint Methodology, Policy and Practice’, Cardiff, UK (8-10 May, 2007).
    Collins A and Flynn A, ‘Modelling the Environmental Sustainability of Major Sporting Events: An Ecological Footprint of the FA Cup Final’. 2nd International Conference on Tourism Economics ‘Tourism Modelling and Competitiveness: Implications for Policy and Strategic Planning’, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (24-26 October, 2005).
  • Collins A and Flynn A, ‘The Environmental Cost of Sports Tourism’. RGS- IBG Annual Conference 2005 ‘Flows and spaces in a globalised world’, Royal Geographical Society, London (31 August-2 September, 2005).
  • Collins A and Roberts A ‘Assessing the Environmental Impact of Major Sporting Events: The ecological footprint of the Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. Welsh Economic Research Unit Conference ‘Sport, Society and Environment: Tracing the Links’, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff (24 May, 2007).
  • Collins A, Roberts A and Munday M, ‘Comparing the economic and environmental impacts of major sporting events: the RBS Rugby Six Nations and FA Cup Final’. International Ecological Footprint Conference ‘Stepping Up the Pace: New Developments in Ecological Footprint Methodology, Policy and Practice’, Cardiff, UK (8-10 May, 2007).
  • Collins A, Flynn A, Munday M and Roberts A, ‘Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003/04 FA Cup Final’. Theoretical Advances in Tourism Economics Conference, University of Évora, Portugal (18-19 March, 2005).

 

Seminars

  • Collins A and Roberts A, ‘The BRASS Journey: Assessing the impact of UK events’, ESRC Seminar Series on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Forecast and scenarios for a more sustainable society. The Brit Oval Stadium, London (1 July, 2008). 
     Collins A and Munday M, ‘Major Sport Events: Evaluating their Impact’, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (9 March, 2007).
    Collins A, ‘Staging Sustainable Events: The contribution of the ecological footprint’, RMIT University, Melbourne (26 November, 2007).              
    Collins A, ‘Major Sporting Events: Competing on an Environmental Stage’. Norwegian University of Technology (22 May, 2007).            
  • Collins A and Flynn A, ‘The Ecological Footprint and the FA Cup Final’, SPRU-CENTRIM Freeman Centre Seminar Sussex University, Brighton (6 May, 2005).
  • Collins A and Munday M, ‘Major Sport Events: Evaluating their Impact’, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (9 March, 2007).

 

Media and Broadcast

  • Wales Today, BBC Wales (9 February, 2007) 
     'Good Morning Wales' BBC Radio Wales (9 February, 2007)
    BBC Wales Today, BBC Wales (14 April, 2005).       
  • Good Morning Wales, BBC Radio Wales (14 April 2005).      
  • ‘Measuring our environmental impact’, You and Yours Programme BBC Radio 4 (6-May, 2005). To listen to this broadcast click here:      
  • Costing the Earth 'Come on you Greens' BBC Radio 4 (26 April 2007). To listen to this broadcast click here:        
  • Five Live Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 (12 February, 2007)        

 

Newspaper Coverage

  • ‘Who really ate all the pies?’, Western Mail, p19 (3 February 2007)
    ‘How many football pitches make a rugby pitch?’, Green View (Cardiff and Vale Green Party)   (March, 2007)
  • ‘Football Diary: Final's Impact on the globe’, Telegraph (21 May, 2004)
  • ‘Footie Fans at the Stadium leave a Big Stamp on our Environment’, Western Mail, p11 (14 April, 2005)  
  • ‘How Many Pies?’, South Wales Echo p11 (14 April 2005)            
  • FA Cup Final Leaves Enormous Ecological Imprint on Big Day’, The Independent, p10 (14 April, 2005)
  • ‘Big Match has Big Impact’, The Times (14 April, 2005)
  • ‘Football fans leave footprint on environment’, Western Mail online (14 April, 2005) Click here to view this article:
  • ‘Stat of the Week’, The Guardian, p28 (20 April, 2005)
  • Final Score - the FA Cup Versus the Environment, G-ForSE Global Forum for Sports and Environment (22 April, 2005)To view this article online click here:
  • FA Cup Vs the environment, Science Daily (12 May, 2005)To view this article online click here
  • ‘Final Impact’ Viewpoint Feature, Stadia Magazine, Issue 35, pp56-58 (July, 2005)
  • Showing us the green card, Metro, p19 (14 May, 2007)
  • Who ate all the pies? Cup Final Fans, The Guardian, p13 (18 May, 2007)
  • Who ate all the pies? Cup Final fans, Guardian Unlimited (18 May, 2007) To view this article online click here
  • ‘What a loada rubbish! Environment pays heavily for a £2m FA Cup Final boost’ Western Mail (19 May, 2007)
  • Opinion Section, The Sun (England), (19 May, 2007
  • Kick environmentalism out of football, Spiked Online (20 May, 2007) To view this article online click here
  • Is it ethical to watch sport?, Spiked Online (12 Oct, 2007)To view this article online click here
  • Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints?, British Journal of Sports Medicine (2006)To view this article online, click here:       

 

Professional publications

  • Sports Fans Leave a Giant Footprint, New Scientist, p11 (16 April, 2005)   To view this article, click here:       
  • Cup Finals' Colossal Waste, Materials Recycling Weekly (22 April, 2005)          
  • The Final Score from Waste at the Cup Final, Recycling and Waste World p1 (21 April 2005)
  • The Wasteful Game, ENDS Report (April, 2005)          
  • Recycle Post (1 May, 2005)          
  • Sidelines: Number Crunch, Nature, vol 447, p362 (24 May, 2007)          
  • Cost of the Cup, Green Futures, p4 (May/June, 2005)          
  • Final Score - the FA Cup versus the environment, Social Sciences, News from the ESRC, Issue 60, p4 (June, 2005)  
  • Readers Digest (1 July, 2005)          
  • Final Impact, Stadia Magazine Issue 35, p56-57 (July, 2005)    
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Memberships/External Activities

Andrea Collins is a member of the London 2012 Carbon Management Strategy Technical Advisory Group

 

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